Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-12-31
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.
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Fayette county will have q rope pull in Jan
uary.
Onawa has prospects OF a bank at an early
date.
Fletcher will hereafter be known as Lake
View.
Dss Moines supports two toboggan slides
this winter.
Corn is selIag for As cents a bushel at
Estherville.
The Pauline fax mill commenced opera
tions last Monday.
The gamhliog dens and saloons at Sibley
have been raided.
The assessed valuation OF the school dis
trict OF Ogden 10 $lO2 73O.
A new Congregations church at Kingsley
was dedicated SUNDAY laet.
The bowling OF wolves frIghtens the citi.
xeLs Of Stone City AT night.
Dlphtheria is reported 10 be severe In Della
ware township, Storey county.
G A ylolatcr of tue prohibition law was fined
$500 at Dss Moines last week.
The net proceede of the cathedral fair at
Dubuque amounted to 1856 So.
Avocs parposes having a hrs;-class base
ball club In the held next season.
Ex-Marshal Zagenbuehler, Of Dubuque, has
been taken to the insane asyIuni.
Fifty conversions have been made since the
beginning OF the revival meetings at Halle
ton.
The editor OF The Hamburg Sunbeam has
been sentercsd to forty days in the county
Jail.
The skating rink st Atlantic has been rent
ed Tor a business mems morning prayer meet
NO.
Eight children OF one room in the Daven-
port schools ale absent on account OF diph-
liberia.
Ouimfy has the reputation OF tbeing the
best grain marxet on the Clinton and Du-
buque.
Davenport authorities attribute the cause
of diLhtheIia In that place largely to adulter
ated foods.
The Iowa state poultry show closed at Mar
shalltown Friday evening. O'er $50 entries
were made.
Farmers In the vicinity OF Drakeville have
successfully experimental in tbreshing their
corn fodder.
A boy was severely injured at Fort Dodge
FRIDAY by running into u barhed wire fence
while coastiDg,
Afarmer near Cherokee has lost $4,000
worth OF hogs within three weeks from some
unknown disease.
The Cedar Rapids High Speed Engine com
pany have tiled articles Of Incorporation.
Capital, SO 1000.
Eighty 81 v III cases OF contagious diseases
nave been reported at Davenport during the
past eighteen DAYS.
A company IS b ing Incorporated at Fletcher
to work up the healing spring on the lake
shore at that place.
The capital st, ok of the Masonic Temple
association o. Davenport has been Increased
from $4,000 10 $4,000.
j. Grumbiner, n Msrshalltown drv goods
merchant, has been closed up by chattel
mortgages and attachments.
Charles McElroy, of Morse, was shot in the
abdomen by his 10 year old brother the other
day while tuntiug He may Rover.
Prof. Floyd ID .vs, Of Ithsct, N. Y, has
been chooses 20 fl the vacancy in Drake uni
versity caused by the death OF DR.. Barnard.
The records Of The state board Of be alth
show the deaths 80 / WA resulting from light
ming Ia the past four years TO be eighteen.
The state capitol building has undergone
thorough cleaoing and PREPARATION for the re-
ception Of the legisiatur, which ASSEMBLIES
JanuaryS
Ex-Constable G w. Hotts, OF Des Moines,
was arrested In that city yesterday for failure
to pay his bosrd bin to his landlady, Ms.
Richter.
The Misses Gussie and julia Larrabee ore
now at home at Ciermont, where they will be
Joined by Gov. and Mrs. LaIrabee to spend
the holidays.
Mr.. Arthur Q. R.ymen, OF Onahs, and Miss
Lottie Form&p, of C,uucil Buff, were mar
rled at the r, sid,I ce of the bride's parents In
the latter city LIS evening.
The city c uncil OF De Moines have passed
an ordinsIc, grnntiog the Broad Gauge
Street Car company a frauchiee 70 operate It's
lines by eleetricltj. The council had been
warned by notice r. m attorneys OF tee nar-
row gauge line aYs.net passiog the ordinance
as damaging To the prop,rt, OF said Rarrow
gauge; tus the tty fathers" took their
owl view .; The m alter and Will await re-
suits.
The Chicago, Milwaukee ard s.. Paul 10
placing between the wheels OF i,s coaches .
bar wnich. should the wheels run on the
track, would b. stuck by the rails and over
turned - - to orerste the air brakes. The
simple Invention Is hat Il . man employed
in the car shops At Uunuede.
The following sre the allowance, OF pen
sious for Iowa: w liter { iecessed), father of
John DygemAn, LcMars: Mshsls; mother of
Henry G. VAUGHN, Monroe QSl2) Susan Z
widow OF John W'csr, Emmetsburg. Original
-Emmetsburg; I-ssc HardenbrOok, Prairie
City. Incre,sc-Cornelius Jordan (deceased),
Boone; George Miller, Council Bluffs; Chss.
w. Morgan, c artnda; Lake McLoney, Eddy
vile; Charles h. Thomp-on, Knoxville; Ed
ward Murphy, Uica. Reissue Martin Har.
r~ingtor, Cserskee; Myron z. e. Billings,
Waverly.
Tne supr m. court rendered a decision Of
som importance TO pnsIm scists Monday, In
which 1t is held that they are not sui set TO
the old permis Law. The case wss the state
OF lows, appe'la,t. Va. Henry Courtney, Dali
laa distYict. fiji n Ell on MA militia anne nj.